AppManager for Microsoft Active Directory
AppManager for Microsoft Active Directory (AppManager for Active Directory) is one component of NetIQ's AppManager Suite (AppManager), the industry's leading solution for managing, diagnosing and analyzing the performance and availability of Windows-, Linux- and Unix-based systems, applications and server infrastructures.
This module not only optimizes Active Directory performance and ensures availability through automated event detection and correction, but also lowers support costs associated with managing your Active Directory deployment.
Key Benefits
- Supplies performance reporting. Manages Active Directory well beyond statistics provided by PerfMon counters. This module provides prepackaged performance and Service Level Agreement reports and stores performance data directly in a SQL Server database, making long-term trend analysis easy.
- AppManager for Microsoft Active Directory
- Provides proactive event management. Delivers robust fault management by proactively detecting potential problems that could impact the availability of your Active Directory services.
- Allows for easy automation. Lets you easily set up event-driven actions—such as sending email or pager alerts, generating an SNMP trap or running a corrective fix program—to execute automatically when a specific condition exists.
- Decreases costs. Helps you lower support costs by enabling you to view the health and status of distributed Active Directory services from one central location. AppManager for Active Directory delivers monitoring logic in prepackaged Knowledge Scripts that allow you to deploy policies quickly and easily.
Management Functions
Here are some of the out-of-the-box management functions provided by AppManager for Active Directory:
- Monitors the number of Active Directory authentications per second.
- Monitors, identifies and alerts based on changes to the bridgehead server role.
- Monitors the cache hit rate of name resolution.
- Checks the number of Active Directory sessions from different clients.
- Monitors access for global catalog servers defined in the forest.
- Monitors inbound replication statistics.
